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Originally Posted by Matt-EUC
What a lot if people don't remember is, that we only declared war on Germany because they invaded Poland. Not because we felt bad about the Jews.
Neville Chamberlain 1939:
"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a
final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were
prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would
exist between us.
I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that
consequently this country is at war with Germany."
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Careful Matt, people may mistake you for a rational, reasoned intellectual.
But in response to the op. I didn't read the whole story because that link wasn't the whole story, the guy apparently said he was handing out business cards or something. Perhaps it was for a reanactment group and the guy dressed as a British soldier was in tesco and the guy dressed as a yank was in sainsburys handing out cards.
Either way it's not really racism just persecution of people not liking the clothes of another individual. Such as when ignorant people look upon Muslim women in a hijab with derision or an Orthodox Jew for wearing the full gear for being so brazen to show their beliefs in public.
The only difference here is that it is more socially acceptable to make it publicly known that you have taken offence to the clothing and act upon that offence to some degree.
All those people who complained may well find the aforementioned things offensive but they won't risk the social impact of showing their disdain in such a public manner. But because it's the SS it's fine.
The amount that people harp on about equality etc is complete and utter BS, at the end of the day we are all in some way bias and dislike someone for something. I am completely different though. I am a firm believer in equality which is why I hate everyone, equally.
So the guy is dressed like a t at, big ****ing deal, get over yourself and get on with your day. He isn't harming you, give him a wide berth.
Life is too short to give a single flying F about meaningless ****e like that. There aren't that many people around anymore that can honestly argue about the wars personal impact on them, those that are fair enough bitch and moan to your hearts content. The rest? Well we are riding on something that ended before our time.
Don't get me wrong, the war was a horrific and terrible tragedy. But it's done. Yes a LOT of people lost their lives. BUT people are STILL losing their lives. All the conflicts of recent years and genocides for faith or whatever may pale in comparison to the number of ww2 but these are the things we should be caring about.